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Who, What, Why: Patrick Carland-Echavarria and queer Americans in post-war Japan
Man with red curly hair and glasses looks into the camera, which is giving a half-moon glow on the lower right side of the image.

Patrick Carland-Echavarria, an East Asian Languages and Civilizations Ph.D. candidate, says his research is all about readjusting the lenses of history. 

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  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Patrick Carland-Echavarria and queer Americans in post-war Japan

    Ph.D. candidate Patrick Carland-Echavarria’s research looks at postwar Japanese queer cultures, translation, art, and literature and at how American gay men found refuge there during the Cold War and beyond.

    Kristen de Groot

    Kimberly St. Julian Varnon on the short-lived insurrection in Russia
    Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company sits inside a military vehicle posing for a selfie photo with a local civilian on a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia

    Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, right, sits inside a military vehicle posing for a selfie photo with a local civilian on a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June 24, 2023, prior to leaving an area of the headquarters of the Southern Military District.

    (Image: AP Photo)

    Kimberly St. Julian Varnon on the short-lived insurrection in Russia

    The history Ph.D. candidate discusses the shocking weekend revolt and march on Moscow by Wagner Group militia members.

    Kristen de Groot

    Who, What, Why: History Ph.D. candidate Arielle Alterwaite looks at Haitian debt
    History Ph.D. candidate Arielle Alterwaite leans up against a light brown brick building with her arms crossed, smiling at the camera.

    Arielle Alterwaite’s dissertation uses archives in seven different countries to explore Haiti's sovereign debt in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution.

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    • Who, What, Why: History Ph.D. candidate Arielle Alterwaite looks at Haitian debt

    Her work on Haiti’s sovereign debt in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution holds lessons for what is currently happening there and more broadly for conversations around reparations.

    Kristen de Groot

    A historian’s take on Juneteenth
    VanJessica Gladney speaking at a podium.

    Doctoral candidate VanJessica Gladney speaking at Penn Spectrum Weekend in 2019.

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    A historian’s take on Juneteenth

    In a Q&A, fifth-year Ph.D. candidate VanJessica Gladney talks about what the day means and what broader conversation she hopes it will foster.

    Michele W. Berger

    Mary Frances Berry and Kermit Roosevelt on Juneteenth’s history
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    Annenberg Classroom, part of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, has released a documentary “Juneteenth: Exploring Freedom’s Stories” that surveys the history of the holiday.

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    Mary Frances Berry and Kermit Roosevelt on Juneteenth’s history

    A new documentary produced by the Annenberg Public Policy Center explores the history of the holiday and illustrates how and why freedom and citizenship were intertwined. The film features Berry and Roosevelt, among others.

    Kristen de Groot

    ‘Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race and Rights in the Age of Abolition’
    Left side of image shows a book cover reading "Undoing Slavery" and the right side of the image shows the author, Kathleen Brown.

    Kathleen Brown's new book sheds new light on the abolitionist movement.

    (Image: Courtesy of Penn Press/Kathleen Brown)

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    • ‘Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race and Rights in the Age of Abolition’

    Historian Kathleen M. Brown’s new book reexamines the antislavery struggle and is the focus of the first episode of a new podcast series from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.

    Kristen de Groot

    War and welfare in colonial Algeria
    A snowy field of marked gravestones, with yew hedges and a large obelisk in the background

    The ossuary of Douaumont is a memorial to the soldiers of the Battle of Verdun of 1916, located on the border of the communes of Douaumont and Fleury-devant-Douaumont, a few kilometers from Verdun. It houses the remains of 130,000 unknown soldiers, French and Germans. In front of the ossuary, the national necropolis of Douaumont gathers 16,142 graves of French soldiers, mainly Catholic, including a square of 592 steles of Muslim soldiers.

    (Image: Sipa via AP Images)

    War and welfare in colonial Algeria

    A new paper from political scientist Melissa M. Lee finds that veteran benefits were distributed unequally between citizens and colonized subjects.

    Kristina Linnea García

    Ancient medicine in today’s world
    An ayahuasca plant in Brazil.

    Image: Courtesy of Taylor Dysart

    Ancient medicine in today’s world

    Taylor Dysart, a doctoral candidate in the School of Arts & Sciences’ Department of History and Sociology of Science, probes modern science’s enthrallment with the powerful Amazonian intoxicant ayahuasca.

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